News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Small Wonder: Taking the bite out of anthrax toxin

    Using a submicroscopic synthetic blob called a liposome, scientists have neutralized anthrax toxin in rats.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Animals

    Grammar’s for the Birds: Human-only language rule? Tell starlings

    A grammatical pattern called recursion, once proposed as unique to human language, turns out to fall within the learning abilities of starlings.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Astronomy

    Energy-Saving Space Engines: Black holes can be green

    Some seemingly quiet black holes are actually efficient engines that emit jets of high-energy particles.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Earth

    Brain Delay: Air pollutants linked to slow childhood mental development

    Pollutants spewing from vehicles and power plants may be harmful to fetal brains.